Rav Avigdor Miller zt"l - Diamonds On The Road

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Avigdor Miller’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

welcome everyone we're about to begin the ezra's hashem number e 235 when we speak about the species called mankind we understand that his outstanding feature that makes him superior as far as we see is his mind is his mind monkeys i'd be in person you see them in the cage but monkeys are nothing more than dogs the same intelligence as dogs the difference between animals and mankind is most markedly noticeable in the mind i say the way we see this more than that much more than that animals can do things can do things in a way superior to mankind every encounter a roach that's in the bathroom give him a whack with the newspaper he falls down it's all over so when you turn around he darts swiftly away and he hides it's coming he plays dead two things is cunning as if he plays dead to save his life and then he does like to save his life and then he does like an arrow like a [ __ ] lightning that's tremendous how fast he goes so they have instincts that are superior to our instincts a little boy if you put him into a wilderness is lost we'll start but the animals are able to find ways of self-sustenance they can even build complicated complicated air defenses of the spider engineers have marveled at the accomplishments of a spider never learned it was orphaned by his parents that nobody did say anything that little spider hat in his mind the gift for making a web of course i call this mother who put it there now there are many such accomplishments in animals

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1. 0:02welcome everyone we're about to begin the ezra's hashem number e 235 when we speak about…
2. 6:18clowns his face assumes an appearance which is a disgrace the solemn election the man has…
3. 12:30give you eternal life if you do things do things that will give you eternal life…
4. 18:39don't think it's silly it's silly to disregard this he said will you train yourself after…
5. 24:54learn to love how to be decent and respectful to everyone and therefore they have made…
6. 31:08and say these words just like that alone it would surrender a great part of his…
7. 37:22so the person is connected to all the living even those who are not pleasant to…
8. 43:29the leaves fought as a result of the action taken by the leaf but they don't…
9. 49:39learn to recognize that one resurrection in your past a fruit stand hateful half minute and…
10. 55:50we would all love him but we saw him and i love him his father surely…

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